The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

I promise I'll come back. No matter what happens." Though his voice was only a whisper, there was a fierceness behind it. I believed him completely. "I'll wait for you, " I told him.

When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

I don't consider myself a politician or a hero. I'm a messenger. If Cambodia is to survive, she needs many voices.

To protect us from terrorism, we must have the best, absolutely the best gathering of intelligence anywhere in the world.

The rain begins with a single drop.

To Love is to reach God.

Sometimes people confuse silence as wisdom when in fact it is compromise.

To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.